The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-12-01
pRon.slT,ox CONVENTION.


Tho Main 6uolno66 Vta6 tho Adop.
ton of an Address % the PEG.
Pile.
About two hundred delegates were pres:
emit ct the State Prohibition Convention
in Minneapolis. The convention was call.
man OF the state committee. Hon. Noah
Lathrop was made temporary chairman
and w. w. Satterlee temporary SECRETARY.
| A committee on resolutions was ap-
pointed consisting Of w. w. Satterlee, j.:
z. Pinkham, C. E. Holt, N. p. Lind, Prot:
Farnham, w. Peterson, n. Rut. Mrs.
Hobart, Mrs. Knox and Mrs.. Elliott. The
committee on nomination reported %
follows:
President, Noah Lathrop, Mortified;
vice president. Mrs. C. Hobart, Red Wing;
second vice president, w. B. Ladd, Mime
apolis: secretary, Z. N. Woodward: assist.
ant. w. Dennis.
The report Of the committee on Resolu.
tions was in the form OF long address.
The first part Of the address was occupied
with setting forth tho evils OF the liquor
traffic (which have reached such maIni-
tude and degree OF destructiveness that
| ment, society and the home" Not tho
least Of these evils 10 the corrupt use Of
money to influence elections and leglsla.
ton. The latter part OF the address was
| occupied with consideration OF tho
remedy.
AND THIS Is THE REMEDY.
The saloon, it set forth, has entered pol.
itics with ito own methods and weapons.
It has allied itself with the two old parties
| and to-day rules them with q rod OF iron.
While Thousands Of voters In both tho old
parties are hostile to the licensed saloons.
their voice ie silenced,. their wishes ignored
by the liquor dealers, their paid attorneys
and subsidized newspapers. We submit in
oil candor that the prospect Of obtain:
ing prohibition of the saloon traffic.
either in Minnesota OF in tile nation;
through the agency Of either Of the old
political parties, is delusive. The Demo:
cratic leaders make no pretensions In that
direction, while. the Republican leaders,
for the most part. make nothing but pre-.
standing to the doctrine that the saloon
system ns it exists in the United States
ought to be abolished and prohibited by
constitutional and legislative enactments,
we therefore pledge ourselves anew to the
maintenance OF the Prohibition party
as absolutely essential both to tho
establishment of prohibitory law and its
Enforcement. We assert without fear OF
successful contradiction that the proiessed
attempt to lessen intemperance and vice
by restricting Gales under the highest law,
| is practically failure. The diminution
OF dram shops is scarcely appreciable,
| while those remaining, paying q high II.
cense, have an abundant opportunity to
increase their sales. make more drnnkards,
and cause an increase of pauperism, crime.
and public expense: The principle in il.
ceusing a public evil isitself fundamentally
wrong. We believe that local option
delusion and snare. wrong in principle apd
in practice q failure. II local option
be correct in principle. why not
submit polygamy to the voters OF
each town in Utah? Why not submit
gambling to the voters of each city? Why
| not vote at each election on licensing for
money all other crimes known to modern
civilization? The issue can never be per-
| manently settled by option and We pro-
pose to fight it out on the prohibition line
| If it takes q lifetime. We maintain that
the entire prohibition of the saloon traffic
| is a principle sound in law and ethics and
| practically possible-the first PROPOSE.
ton having been sustained by the
highest tribunals and the record proven,
/ not only by experience and the direct
testimony OF eminent men, but by the
/
! the governmental power to abate the al.
| cohol nuisance without compensation to
owner is, and OF right ought to be, as in.
herent and patent in the people az the
| right to abate slaughter house or soap
| factory without compensation.
LITTLE OF EVERYTHING.
We favor the enactment OF law to pun
ish any voter who shall ask for or accept
- &~H H.Sr sd, "a
| election, and to punish any one who shall
| give bride. We fully endorse the princi.
! Piles OF the Interstate commerce law pro.
hibiting pooling and unjust determinations
between persons and localities and favor
their rigid enforcement. We favor such
legislation rs will require all railroad cor.
porations in this state to furnish grain
warehouses at each depot and grant
equal facilities to all persons for handling
grain. We sympathize with the farmers
and workingmen' g organizations in their Of.
forts to secure equal justice. We ask con-
gress to pass interstate telegraph law for
| the proper regulation of telegraph lines
and their use, whereby the public may
be served on equal terms at reasonable
rates and without discrimination. We
commend the action of the temperance
hibition question, and Of the Christian
board who have encouraged prohibition.
The report finally concluded with the
statement that the Prohibition party is
the only one to meet these various
issues OF the times. Measures were taken
to complete the organization of tho state
by congressional, senatorial and legislative
districts: counties and townships. It was
recommended that the campaign
OF 1888 be opened by public meetings in
every school district as well as ir the
towns and cities OF the state, and ST..
500 was raised for that purpose. The FOL.
lowing state central committee was ap-
pointed: First district, J. r. Watkins,
Winona; w. Dennis. Owatonna. Second
district, T. p. Grout. Luverne T. NJ. Dyer,
Cottonwood. Third district, D. w. Ed.
wards. LIE sueur; N. Lathrop, Dakota.
Fourth, w. Peterson and r. P. Lupton,
Hennepin. Fifth. j. w. Earl, Otter Tail;
j. +. Stevens, Becker. At large, J. P.
Pinkham, G. F. Wells. Hugh Harrison,
Prof Reinstadt, c. w. Woodward.
Charles w. Slayton entered suit at St.
Paul. against Close. Bros. & Co., to bring
about accounting Of profits derived from q
real estate partnership. The parties con.
tracted together for the salo ofcertain land
amounting to about 200. 900 acres situated
in Minnesota and Iowa, from the profits OF
which sales the plaintiff was to receive 10
per cent.
Rev. Father Stephen Byrne, OF the Holy
Rosary church OF Minneapolis. died at the
parochial residence. Cancer of the liver